A great stack if you can find it w/ Sprint S7 Edge, 25K AA

Reader Clint emailed us about a great promotion running right now between American Airlines and Sprint whereby you can earn 25,000 American Airlines miles for opening a new sprint account (and 417 miles per month that your account is open and in good standing, good for another 5,004 miles per year). That’s a great deal in and of itself as it should stack with other Sprint deals (apart from corporate discounts). If you can furthermore find a unicorn deal at Sam’s Club on a Samsung S7 Edge, you might just make out like a bandit if it stacks.

The Deal

• Get 25,000 American Airlines AAdvantage miles when you activate a new Sprint Account
• Get 417 miles per month that your phone line is in good standing (5,004 miles per year)
• Direct link to the promotion page (register here)

Key Terms

• Ends 12/31/17
• Members can earn one 25,000 miles award with a new Sprint account with 1 new phone line activation (a new account, not just adding a line) when line remains active for 30 days. (both new and existing accounts can earn the monthly 417 miles, but only new accounts can earn the 25K miles)
• Excludes SWP and CL accounts, upgrades, replacements and new line activations from Sprint entities or providers associated with Sprint (i.e. Virgin Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, Sprint Prepaid and Assurance).

Quick Thoughts

This is a nice promo for opening a new account and it looks like you could stack it with whatever offers they have out for different phone deals. I’ve seen conflicting reports as to whether or not you can mix this with Free Sprint cell service for 1 year, but the FAQ page says it can’t be stacked with a 1-year BYOD plan. Assuming you can’t, this is still probably a very good deal. Even if you paid for 2 months of service on Sprint’s cheapest plan (I believe it’s $40/mo for 2GB of data), you can probably snag 25,000 miles for less than $100. If American really does follow through on the rumors of increased AAdvantage availability, this would be a good deal. You can first pre-register for this deal at the Sprint site linked to in “The Deal” above (your pre-registration is good for 90 days).

Maybe a fantastic stack w/ S7 Edge deal

I’m not positive if this can be stacked, and it’s going to take some luck, but I think this might work. Sam’s Club has been clearing out stock the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge — just the S7 Edge, not the S7. If you sign up in-store at a Sam’s Club that has stock, they should have the S7 Edge available on the Sprint 24-month payment plan for $11.98 per month (~$287.50 total) plus $25 activation fee (I think I read that they were waiving the activation fee over the weekend, not sure if that’s still on). The bonus is that when you buy and activate it on the payment plan, it comes with a $450 Sam’s Club gift card (remember that this can also be used at Walmart). You could buy it on the payment plan and then pay it off in full later. In fact, at least one person in the relevant Slickdeals thread reports having picked up the phone at a Sam’s Club on Monday and then paying it off in full later the same night. Reports have been that Sprint then automatically unlocks the phone (which may take a day or two), enabling you to bring it to another carrier if/when you want.

Finding a Sam’s Club that still has stock is probably only slightly more likely than getting an upgrade on a transcontinental flight, but people have reported success still in the past few days. If you can stack that deal with the 25K AA miles deal (and assuming you value the Sam’s Club gift card at face value), you should come out pretty close to an even-money wash….You’ll essentially pay somewhere around $450 with taxes for 25K miles, an S7 Edge, 2 months of cell service, and a $450 Sam’s Club gift card. That’s a deal.

I’m not absolutely positive that this stacks with the AAdvantage offer, but I don’t see why not. In fact, from the FAQ section of the Sprint/AA offer, it indicates that you only have to register for the miles within 30 days of activating your new Sprint account:

Join Sprint and add a new line of service. As American Airlines AAdvantage^® member, you’ll earn:

• A one-time mileage award of 20,000 AAdvantage^® miles.
• Loyalty miles of up to 5,000 AAdvantage^® miles every year, awarded in increments of 417 miles/mo. when your Sprint account remains active and in good standing.

Simply register at sprint.com/AAdvantage within 30 days of activating your new Sprint account and phone to earn your miles. You’ll see the 20,000 miles as a single deposit and then as you earn monthly loyalty miles, you will see 417 miles deposited monthly for as long as your Sprint account remains active and in good standing.

As a new customer, you can also take advantage of other promotional offers when you activate a new account and non-discounted phone line, including our 50% Off or Better Choice plans.

I think that means you should be able to activate at Sam’s Club and then register online. I’m not sure whether it makes more sense to pre-register or register after the fact if this is your plan.

Other phone deals?

I’m sure that Sprint has some other great phone deals going on. I didn’t look at what other “best” options there may be — this one stuck out at me because of the gift card included that is worth more than the cost of the phone + service. If you find other great deals to stack, let us know in the comments.

Bottom line

If you’re planning to switch to Sprint, grab yourself 25K AA miles while you’re at it. If you have a Sam’s Club nearby, you might want to try stacking these deals (though I can’t say for certain that they will stack as I’m not near a Sam’s Club and thus haven’t tried it).

H/T: Reader Clint, Slickdeals 25K AA miles thread & S7 Edge thread.

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